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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1782
Mr. [Thomas] McKean, a delegate for the State of Delawere, attended, and produced credentials of the delegates of that State; whereby it appears, that on the second of this month, the hon. Thomas McKean, Philemon Dickinson, Caesar Rodney, and Samuel Wharton, esqrs. were elected for the present year.
In the General Assembly of the Delaware State,
Saturday, P.M. February 2d 1782.
The Council and House of Assembly having met in the Council Chamber, proceeded, by joint Ballot, to the Choice of Delegates to represent this State in the Congress of The United States of America for the present Year, and the Box containing the Ballots being examined by the Speakers of both Houses, in the Presence of the Members, the Honorable Thomas McKean, Philemon Dickinson, Caesar Rodney and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, are declared duly elected.
Extract from the Minutes,
Jas Booth Clk of Assembly.2
[Note 2: 2 The original is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, Delaware, Credentials of Delegates. It was entered in No. 179, Record of Credentials, and not in the Journal.]
Mr. J[ohn] M[orin] Scott, a delegate for the State of New York, attended, and took his seat.
On the report of a committee, consisting of Mr. [Edmund] Randolph, Mr. [Thomas] Bee and Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, appointed to report on the mode of propounding questions,
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The committee, to whom it was referred to report the form in which questions touching amendments shall be propounded report:
Resolved, That it be a standing rule of Congress,
Resolved, That whensoever a motion is made for striking out one or more words in order that something may be inserted in its stead, the debate shall turn upon the propriety of the proposed insertion, and the question shall be "Shall the proposed amendment be made?" That whensoever a motion is made for striking out one or more words, but no proposition is made to insert any thing else, the question shall be upon the words proposed to be struck out, in the following manner, "Shall these words stand?"1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Edmund Randolph, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 23, folio 119.]
A letter, of January 3d, from Charles Fleming, who was on the 7th October, 1780, appointed on the part of the United States, one of the persons to endorse the bills emitted by Virginia, pursuant to the Act of the 18 March, 1780, was read, informing that it is inconvenient for him to continue in the business, and resigning that appointment.2
[Note 2: 2 Flaming's letter is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, IX, folio 499.]
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